Railway-tie.



S. G. CAPERTON.

RAILWAY TIE. APPLICATION FILED OCT. 30, 1906.

W1 mm ,!H 08 RT m m d2 6 t n e t a P 1 A 8 p .6 11 9 Svwewtoz 3 m? g M q Vitmzono 9 Q 8. O. GAPERTON.

RAILWAY TIE. APPLICATION FILED 001. 30,1906.

91 6,841 Patented Mar. 30, 19%.

2 SHEETSSHEET 2.

' tion, to provide a tie that will not only be drawings, the invention will first be debe, wherever they oc'pur.

mar ran snares SAMUEL G. QAPERTON, OE OhMPBELLSVILLE, TENNESSEE.

RAILWAY-TIE Application filed October 30 Specification 0t Letters latent.

, 190s. Serial No. 341,210.

Patented March 3Q, 1909.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL C. tiirnn'ron, a citizen of the United States, residing at Campbellsville, in the county of Giles, State of Tennessee, have invent-ed certain new and useful Improvements in Railway-Ties; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention appertains to metallic railway ties; and it is the purpose, of the invenlasting, enduring ten or more times the service of the best wood, but be firmer on the road-bed, having a broader bearing thereon, and permitting of the ballast to act thereon more efiiciently, and that will hold the rails with greater security upon the ties and against spreading.

The nature of the invention may be ascertained from the device portrayed in the accompanying drawings, which is one of the best forms now known to me in which the invention may be embodied, in view of which scribed, and then pointed out in the subjoined claim.

Of the said drawings l igure 1 is a plan of the invention showing the rails as secured in position on two ends. Fig. 2 is an end elevation. Fig. 3 is an inside view of one of the ends of the tie. Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section view through one end of the tie in the plane 44 of Fig. 1.

Similar numerals of reference designate similar parts or features, as the case may In plan my improved tie is made in a form resemblin the letter X-that is, it is made as though consisting of two ties crossed at their longitudinal centers and integrally joined at the point of crossing. They may be 01' any desired form in cross section, though hereinshown as of rectangular shape in the said section. l have considered a form in which their under surfaces might be inclined from opposite sides in order'to 'l'aoilitate' the tamping 01' the ballast under and against the sides of the ties, but this is a matter so well understood by those skilled in the art as not to require illustration or explanation.

:In the drawings 10 designates the tie-l body made as described, and 11 designates 1 'nlner portions undercut the end. portions upon which the rails forming the track are designed to rest. The said ends are reduced in height, having their upper portions cut away, and the adjacent in an inwardly sloping direction. as at 12, that the inner flange of the rail 13, the upper side of which slopes downward will fit in said undercut, the base of the rails resting upon the fiat upper surfaces of the reduced parts of the ends. Extending laterally outward from the inner sides of the reduced ends are the dovetail spaced grooves 14 having their sides undercut for sliding the head 15 of a ,bolt, 16, properly formed into said slot, the screw-threaded end of the bolt extendingup vertically so as to be )assed'through a hole, 17, in a bevel edged (ilamping block 18, the inner edge of which is inclined downward and outward so as to fit over the outer flange of the rail. A nut, 19, is turned on the upper end of each bolt so as to secure the blocks in place and hold the rails down and securely against s reading.

It is o vious that other ways of securing the blocks to the ties may be provided, and that more than one bolt 16 may be employed for the purpose. However, what is shown and has been described will be sufiioient for the purposes of this specification.

It is also obvious that my improved tie may be made to rest firmly and steadily on the bed, without liability of rocking or yielding in any direction, and when made of metal, as of steel, for example, will be quite durable and lasting.

What is claimed is A metallic tie, cast to form two members held ibwise, said members being of equal length and rectangular incross-section, the

W. H. Mann, SoLoN BUCHANAN 

